2018 Earth Building Conference

is EBAA’s 2018 Earth Building Conference theme which presents the opportunity for all of us to share in a 3-day programme of workshops, seminars and papers on the subject of affordable and sustainable housing through the use of natural and unfired earth.

Topics that will be covered include:

affordable earth homes

owner built earth housing

design features that assist in keeping the costs down

light earth, mudbrick and rammed earth wall construction

co-housing / sweat equity earth building approaches and schemes

earth building approaches and systems to reduce construction costs

what makes earth such an ideal material to create an affordable home

other topics to be announced

Key Note Speaker:

Prof . Dr. Gernot Minke – Rostock Germany.

Gernot Minke is the first world benchmark in terms of sustainable or natural construction. Gernot Minke has carried out more than 50 research and development projects in the field of ecological constructions, low-cost housing, establishing the scientific properties of unfired earth (material characterisation) and earth construction techniques including cob, rammed earth, mud brick and clay renders, earth reinforcement with natural fibers and bamboo and green roofs. He has been invited as a speaker to more than 60 international conferences and has given numerous lectures, courses and workshops in various countries of the world.

This conference attracts Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points, if you need those.

Dates and Venue for the 2018 Earth Building Conference:

The conference is held over 3 days 28, 29, 30 September 2018 at Bamarang Bush Retreat, which is near Nowra in the Shoalhaven area south of Sydney, in NSW.

The conference venue, Bamarang Bush Retreat, is a large group of mud brick buildings. Accommodation in these mud brick buildings is included for conference attendees who wish. All meals are fully catered with delicious local produce prepared and cooked by EBAA catering members at the venue. Evening fireside music often completes the day.

Technical experts of many decades experience are continuously in attendance and all earth building questions can and will be answered.

Enquiries:

The Earth Building Association of Australia (EBAA ) supports well designed sustainable and affordable high thermal mass buildings that are net zero carbon and require little or no energy for thermal comfort, Australia wide. Such buildings are commercially available or able to be built by owner builders themselves, over most of Australia. Learn how to get such a home designed and built or ideas on how to build it yourself from the Earth Building Association of Australia

See improved thermal performance and less greenhouse gas emission from an unfired earth wall building. Also…Rather than the endless insulation and sealing of buildings to lessen air conditioning costs, EBAA proposes building with thick massive unfired earth walls, climatically well designed and free running. At the same time using sustainable, economic and low embodied energy, earth building methods. The aim is low carbon in construction and in lifetime running of the buildings to overall be carbon neutral, as well as meeting other sustainable and healthy building and affordability metrics.